The Day Merb Joined Rails • Hacker News Board

Re: The Day Merb Joined Rails

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 3:10 AM UTC

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #8

I'm not a Ruby guy, so I may be completely off here, but it struck me as kind of inaccurate to describe Merb as "an alternative Rails stack"...I thought Merb was an alternative to the Rails stack?

To disambiguate: It was a separate project, with similar goals and similar, though meaningfully improved, architecture.

Re: The Day Merb Joined Rails

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Post by Tritis » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 4:14 PM UTC

undertoad wrote: post #9

andr wrote: post #6

Cool. Can we get some Django news now, please? :)

Merge Pylons. ;)

Merge SqlAlchemy

Re: The Day Merb Joined Rails

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Post by yan » Wed, Dec 24, 2008, 5:19 PM UTC

smoody wrote: post #7

"On December 23rd, we decided to end the duplication and the paradox of choice." Let's be clear about one thing: They didn't eliminate "the paradox of choice," they eliminated "choice." The Paradox of Choice comes into play when there are so many choices that people have difficulty making a choice at all -- like 23 varieties of white bread. The Paradox of Choice does not come into play when there are two choices. But…

That book was a great read. Here's his talk at TED for a taste what it's about:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_par...